Labaton Sucharow LLP

Financial fraud crosses borders. So do we. It has become clear that the world's largest investors will increasingly need to look beyond their own borders as they seek to achieve necessary returns. Accordingly, our clients work hard to develop geographically diversified portfolios and engage in new investment opportunities. With increased exposure comes increased risk, however, which heightens the need to appropriately safeguard their beneficiaries' interests regardless of the countries in which they are invested. Potentially damaging fraud and misconduct disregards geographic boundaries - as such, international monitoring and analysis are crucial to investment risk management. Labaton Sucharow is one of the first U.S. law firms to recognize this need and we have assembled an international team of professionals active in, and sensitive to, a multitude of jurisdictions.

In recent years, the Firm has taken on a groundbreaking role in offering advice to both domestic and international clients regarding class and group actions brought overseas - most of which require an active decision to participate. Labaton Sucharow combines its own team of seasoned securities litigators with similarly high-level expertise offered by allied firms in key oversea jurisdictions to create a truly international law practice. We have forged alliance with law firms in Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, France, England, Canada and Australia to provide clients with far-reaching capabilities.

Liaison Counsel Regarding Non-U.S. Actions
On behalf of investors that may be affected by, and considering involvement in, non-U.S. matters, our international experts are able to make inquiries, collect and submit trading data for loss and recovery analysis, and review and redraft contracts on a fully anonymous basis. Considering international actions means dealing with very nuanced legal cultures and engaging multiple parties. By combining our track record of successful U.S. actions with our international expertise and network of experts, we become a comprehensive source of information and guidance for our clients.

Proactive Portfolio Monitoring
In addition to representing our international clients in full-scale litigation, we are often asked to provide proactive portfolio monitoring services, serving as the "eyes and ears" that protect our clients' interests. This involves monitoring our clients' investment portfolios to identify irregularities in and outside of the U.S., particularly those instances in which the client holds shares in a company accused of misconduct or other wrongdoing. When potential opportunities for loss recovery are identified, we undertake a careful examination and analysis to evaluate the potential of the case.

Committed to fairness and equality for our clients and for ourselves.

Labaton Sucharow believes that a variety of viewpoints and backgrounds leads to better insight and better lawyers. We strive to improve diversity within the Firm and the legal profession as a whole.

Fifty years ago, the founding partners of Labaton Sucharow established a platform to promote fairness in business enterprise. It worked. Over the last five decades, our Firm has earned global recognition for extraordinary success in securing historic recoveries and reform for investors and consumers. That's justice in action.

But let's face it: a commitment to fairness and equality does not begin with client engagements. It begins with our people.

We firmly believe that there is strength and value in diversity and we actively aim to hire minority and female attorneys, professionals and staff. We have built a work environment where everyone can thrive: an environment where our practices and programs support our values.

The Labaton Sucharow Minority Scholarship and Internship

Demonstrating our commitment to diversity in law and to introduce minority students to Labaton Sucharow, in 2006 we established the Labaton Sucharow Minority Scholarship and Internship. The annual award -- a grant and a summer associate position -- is presented to a first-year minority student from a metropolitan New York law school who has demonstrated academic excellence, community commitment and personal integrity. Several scholarship recipients are now full-time attorneys with the Firm.

The Firm has also instituted a diversity internship in which we invite two students from Hunter College to join us each summer. These interns are rotated through our various departments, shadowing Firm partners and getting a feel for the inner workings of a law firm.